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"A Terrible Vengeance"
Short story by Nikolai Gogol
1901 book cover
Original titleСтрашная месть
TranslatorRichard Pevear
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Genre(s)Gothic fiction
Publication
Published inEvenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Publication typeAnthology
Publication date1832
Published in English1998
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"A Terrible Vengeance" (Russian: Страшная месть, romanized: Strashnaya mest') is a short Gothic horror story written by Nikolai Gogol.[1] It was published in the second volume of his first short story collection, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, in 1832, and it was probably written in late summer 1831.[2]

  1. ^ Gogol, Nikolai (1998) [1832]. The Collected Tales. Translated by Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky. New York, London, Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 63–103. ISBN 978-0-307-26969-0.
  2. ^ Gogol, N. V. (2003). Iu. V. Mann; E. E. Dmitrieva (eds.). Polnoe sobranie sochinenie. Vol. 1. Moskva: Nauka. pp. 185–217, 791–831 (notes). ISBN 5-02-032679-8.

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